[ltp] Several Problems on Gentoo with T43

[Mike Kershaw]

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On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 08:18:01PM +0000, Soren Harward wrote:
> On Wed 22 Mar 2006 at 17:27:16, baule@zitmail.uni-paderborn.de said:
> > I got several problems with my wireless configuration.
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> I'm using Gentoo on a T43, too.  I've had issues with the 2.4
> firmware causing ksoftirqd to start eating up 100% of the cpu after
> a few hours of heavy use.  So I finally rm'd the 2.4 firmware files
> and symlinked the 2.3 files into their place.  Works beautifully.

The 2.4 firmware was known to be flawed.  The latest firmware is 3.0,
using the 1.1.1 drivers.  Pretty much no reason not to go to these, as
each release significantly improves stability.

I would definitely go to 1.1.1 over 1.1.0.  There were known problems
with 1.1.0.

-m

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